Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Datastore | TrustRadius

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Score 9 out of 10

Based on 243 reviews and ratings

Score 8 out of 10

Based on 18 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Datastore

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

Highly available and redundant; we do not worry about the service having downtime
Simple usage from multiple different frameworks using Amazon's SDKs, or roll your own
A large number of bucket policies and security adjustments to tailor usage to customer needs
Regional support for storing assets in particular locations around the world

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Head of Engineering

Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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It is hosted in GCP, our primary cloud provider.
It integrates with all the services we use in GCP.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

No support for object versions retention: There can be a retention policy(days or number) for object versions that are stored in S3 so that we don't have to worry about paying extra for all the old versions of an object in the bucket.
No feature for replication within a region: Currently AWS does not support replication within a region. Also, having to enable versioning for buckets in which you need replication makes it even more costly.
Confusing pricing: The pricing model of S3 can be a little confusing for a new customer with questions regarding data transfer from other AWS services, between buckets or data transfer to the outside world.

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Engineer in Engineering

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employees

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Google's support is not the best; most of the time, you would be scrambling to talk to someone but would end up with long email chains with support.
Better querying features are needed.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Google Cloud Datastore 9.5

Based on 3 answers

For the amount of use we're getting from Google Cloud Datastore, switching to any other platform would have more cost with little gain. Not having to manage and maintain Google Cloud Datastore for over 4 years has allowed our teams to work on other things. The price is so low that almost any other option for our needs would be far more expensive in time and money.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Amazon S3 7.1

Based on 6 answers

The AWS S3 API is translated into every language you can think of, and is very powerful. However, the split of features into the AWS CLI -> S3 and AWS CLI -> S3API causes some confusion when dealing with complex uploading and metadata.

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Jonathan Kempf, UXC

Lead Frontend Engineer

MaisonetteApparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees

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Google Cloud Datastore 6.0

Based on 1 answer

Google Cloud Datastore is a fully managed, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. You should feel at home if you are familiar with relational databases, but there are some key differences to be aware of to make the most of using Datastore.The goal of Google Cloud is to provide an API that is comfortable to Rubyists. Your authentication credentials are detected automatically in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Functions (GCF) and Cloud Run. In other environments you can configure authentication easily, either directly in your code or via environment variables.

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon S3 8.9

Based on 21 answers

Overall, Amazon S3 has worked out great for our organization. It has enabled us to build out a centralized storage solutions for fraction of the cost that a on-prem solution would have required. If properly managed S3 is a great asset to any organization. There a few small things that need improvement like the UI and storage monitoring but over it's been great.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 51-200 employees

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Google Cloud Datastore 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Due to timezone differences, we have had issues contacting Google Support, but [we] were able to get our issues and queries solved by the next business day.

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 11-50 employees

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We selected Google Cloud Datastore as one of our candidates for our NoSQL data is because it is provided by Google Cloud, which fits our needs. Most of our infrastructure is on Google Cloud, so when we think about the NoSQL database, the first thing we thought about is Google Cloud Datastore. And it proves itself.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.

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Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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You don't need a dedicated DevOps guy to manage your database. Everything happens at the click of a button on the dashboard.
Less amount of time spent on configuration and more time on actual development.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Datastore

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Datastore

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